mechanical-heart-valve-noise-may-cause-sleepless-nights

[perrybucsdad]

I remember when I told my oldest grandaughter (she is 6) that I swallowed a clock like the alligator in Peter Pan. She gave me the strangest look, and then I told her to come and listen to my chest and she had this amazed look on her face.

 

[dornole]

My wife CAN'T sleep when I travel as she is so used to the clicking. I bought her an old wind-up clock that she can stick under the sheets or a pillow that delivers the same sort of noise for her.

There's all kinds of crazy 12-hour recordings of sounds on the internet along these lines, as I discovered when my son (who developed tinnitus) was looking for masking sounds. There was one of "CPAP machine" that he liked. One of the commenters, a widower, said it was comforting because it reminded him of his wife.